Re:Macromedia needs house cleaning (Score 1)

macromedia does need cleaning but yoour reasoning is rubbish even by slashdot standards. 1.fireworks beat the pants off of it's adobe counterpart: imageready. 2.Flash is really just dumbed down Director and as such, you get it or you do not. 3.Freehand has fallen off a cliff since Version 10 - not much quibble there. The important thing is that Freehand forced Adobe to innovate Illustrator. 4.Dreamweaver is clearly capable of producing standards compliant pages - the coding end of it is really just Allaire's HomeSite. You get out what you put in - if you understand standards, standards will come out. 5. Dreamweaver/Fireworks almost single-handedly helped the institution of CSS and the png format. Macromedia's biggest problem has been quality. Each generation of their software has been successively less stable than the previous version. Once upon a time they were at least as good at Adobe if not better. Adobe is the Microsoft of the market though-- attention anyone who wants to succeed: corner the business market and the designers will be forced to follow. Microsoft cornered the business world and Apple was left kissing education and designer ass. Now even education and designers are on the microsoft platforms. Adobe focused on PDFs and their overwhelming Photoshop dominance. Business used PDFs exlusively and bought Adobe products to help build them. Macromedia focused on the web designers, essentially eschewing their print market, and now they are kissing Adobe glutes. Regardless, this is not a Good Thing for the design world.